Hazarewal

Hazarewals or Hazarawals (Urdu: ہزارہ وال) also known as Hazara (ہزارہ) is term used for the multi-ethnic predominantly Hindko and Shina speaking community belonging to the Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Hindko speaking Hazarewals include the Swatis, Jadoons, Karlals, Abbasis, Sayyids, Tanolis, Awan, Turks, Tanolis, Qureshis Shilmani/Sulemani and Khokhars.

This article is about the Shina and Hindko speakers of the Hazara region in Pakistan. For the Persian-speaking Hazaras of Afghanistan, see Hazara people.

Dardic speaking Hazarewals include the Shins, Mankiyalis, Yashkuns, Marooch, Kamin and the Gabara. A small number of Hindko speakers in Hazara Division are also Pashtuns. Majority of these Pashtuns speak Hindko as their mother tongue and do not speak the Pashto language anymore. These Hindko speaking Pashtun Hazarewals include the Tahirkhel, Yusufzai, Jadoon, Dilazak and Tareen.

The Hazarewal, are not to be confused with the ethnic Hazara people inhabiting parts of Balochistan province in Pakistan or areas of neighbouring Afghanistan. The Hazarewals have, over the last few years, found themselves increasingly in favour of separation and autonomy from the rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on linguistic basis.

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